2 Dead, 1 Injured In Iw

Police Rescue 1 1/2-yar-old

June 28, 1991|By PAUL KIRBY Staff Writer

ISLE OF WIGHT — Police found the bodies of a woman and a man after storming a trailer in Red Oaks Mobile Home Park early today. Another woman was shot, and late Thursday she told neighbors that her estranged husband had shot her and the other woman before turning the gun on himself.

Police found the woman's body on the floor of a bedroom and the man's body in the living room. They said it appeared that the man had shot himself. Neither victim was identified.

The injured woman, Kathy Terry, was bleeding from a gunshot wound when she staggered to a neighbor's home around 9 p.m. Terry was in surgery at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News late Thursday night.

A 1 1/2-year-old girl was taken out of the trailer by police, who broke a window to rescue her.

Police waited outside the trailer for several hours before storming the mobile home. They brought an armored vehicle to the site, launched nine tear gas cannisters at the house and warned any occupants to surrender.

Neighbor Leroy Gardner said he and his children were playing Nintendo when they heard a gunshot. ``We just figured it was somebody out in the field,'' he said.

Five or 10 minutes later, he said, Terry stumbled onto his porch and knocked on the door. His 16-year-old daughter, Tamantha, answered the door and found the wounded neighbor.

Gardner said he called police while Terry sat on his porch and said repeatedly that her husband had shot her, her friend and himself.

Terry lives in the trailer with her best friend and her friend's two children, according to Gardner. The friend's son was not home Thursday night, he said.

Her daughter, a blonde, blue-eyed toddler, was in the home of neighbor Molly Weidman after being rescued by police.

She had blood on her white patent-leather shoes, and ``she's been calling `Mommy, mommy,' '' said Weidman. ``All you can do is tell her is she'll be back in a little while.''

Howells said Terry moved to Isle of Wight from Suffolk within the past two weeks. She had separated from her husband before moving into the park on Route 10 south of Smithfield, several neighbors said.